When police put up his mugshot, and said he was wanted on parole violation charges, the man wrote “Yeah I’m not worried about it. If you’re (sic) next post gets a thousand shares I’ll turn myself in along with a dozen doughnuts. And that’s a promise.

“And I’ll pick up every piece of litter around all your public schools. Let’s see if you can get those shares.”

In the end, it only took about an hour to rack up 1,000 shares. By Tuesday, the police post had been shared more than 4,000 times.

He walked into the station — with the goods — on Monday.

“There was so much attention on him, there was really nowhere else he could go,” Gregg said.